GC2CQ3D Traditional Cache DSP&P Avoiding Red Hill
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Grand High Pobah @ | Hide Date: 08/05/2010 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 16.613 W105° 55.388 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
The cache is a 35mm container. It is winter friendly.
This is one of the caches in a series of caches dedicated to Fallen Flag railroads. Fallen Flags are those railroads that no longer exist either through abandonment or corporate takeover. With each cache will come a short history lesson explaining a little something about the railroad.

DSP&P are the initials of the Denver, South Park, and Pacific railroad. It was a narrow gauge line (3’ between the rails) that started life in Denver in 1874 and was headed to the mining camps in the mountains.

For a railroad to get past a steep hill, it must rely on one of three approaches. The first would be to build a tunnel through the hill. The second tactic was to lay out the track with loops and curves and maybe even switchbacks in such a way as to lengthen the track to the point where the grade in manageable. The third way which the DSP&P used for its approach to Fairplay was to simply avoid the hill and go around it. From a point you can see to the north the track headed in a southerly direction on a parallel with Red Hill. When the track reached Garo, a branch line was built back up to Fairplay and Alma.

The cache is located on the old roadbed.
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6 Logs: Found it 6  

Found it 06/30/2019 By CorMilFam
Quick stop on a rainy day. Tried to venture a little farther down the road, but the mud was a bit too slippery so we turned around.

Found it 08/27/2018 By FresnoDancingFool
I had no desire to avoid Red Hill, but I still detoured a few feet off the main highway to grab this cache. It turned out to be easy, but it would be difficult for children to reach. Good job and TFTC!

Found it 08/01/2018 By intpbob
Wide open spaces.

Found it 07/29/2018 By PalouseShawn
And another DSP&P. Thanks GHP.

Found it 07/22/2018 By KianaKai
Found today while out adventuring across Boreas Pass from Redhill

Found it 07/07/2018 By Jinxer05
My kiddos found this one before I could even leave the car